Hi
Im quite new to Hibernate and seems to be missing something.
I have read the FAQ and searched the web for an answer - but with no luck.


Say I would like to initialize an object ObjA which has as a member collection "CollectionB" which can be reached by ObjA.CollectionB.

At some points I want that CollectionB contains elements where Year>2003 and sometimes I want CollectionB to contain objects where Year<2003. Is there some way that I can initialize CollectionB so that it will only contain the wanted elements.

My problem is that I have to hand over ObjectA (initialized with the correct version of CollectionB) to a business function that cannot work with a detached collectionB??

How can this be done????

Regards Morten

Well, you could do it with a filter. But by the way you are stating the problem, I think you should simply write queries to do this.

I use
Session.CreateFilter(ObjA.CollectionB,"where Year>2003).List();

But afterwards ObjA.CollectionB STILL got its origonal collection ie. it is not the new collection with fewer items in it??????

What am I doing wrong..

Can I just replace ObjA.CollectionB with the IList returned from the CreateFilter method or will this have some side effects??

Regards Morten

I mean a Hibernate3 Filter, not a collection filter.